NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day recognized for decades of outreach
On June 16, 1995, when the World Wide Web was young, two gamma-ray astronomers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center ...
Tag: Astronomy
National Astronomy Meeting 2022: First media announcement
Journalists are warmly invited to attend the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2022), to take place at the ...
Pathways to the skies: NAU and CCC launch partnership to increase URM participation in astronomy, planetary science and other STEM fields
Professor David Trilling, chair of Northern Arizona University’s Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, has been awarded a grant by ...
UCI-led astronomy team finds evidence of galactic metal shrouded in dust
Irvine, Calif., June 1, 2022 – A thorough understanding of galaxy evolution depends in part on an accurate measurement of ...
Unistellar and SETI Institute expand Worldwide Citizen-Science Astronomy Network
May 25, 2022, Marseilles, France and Mountain View, CA -- The number of citizen scientists surveying the night sky is ...
Lennart Lindegren and Michael Perryman receive the 2022 Shaw Prize in Astronomy
Hipparcos, launched in 1989, measured the positions and motions of over 100 000 stars with an accuracy two orders of ...
TAIP awarded $12.5 million grant to roll back underrepresentation of undergraduate African Americans in physics, astronomy
WASHINGTON, April 5, 2022 – TEAM-UP Together, a new initiative by the American Institute of Physics and key physics and ...
AIP report: Harassment, discrimination in astronomy takes many forms
WASHINGTON, March 29, 2022 – The existence of harassment and discrimination in academia has been well documented across a variety ...
24 teachers from 13 states to become NASA Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors
March 1, 2022, Mountain View, CA — The SETI Institute has selected 24 teachers from 13 states as 2022 NASA ...
New finding in astronomy: black hole spins on its side
Scientist Prof. Dr. Svetlana Berdyugina, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Freiburg and Director of the Leibniz Institute for ...
Space telescope ushers in new age of astronomy
A "game changing" new telescope will be blasted into space tonight to embark on a lonely 1.5-million-kilometre orbit around the ...
WVU-led Dolly Sods GPU cluster to drive new frontiers of computational research in physics and astronomy, drug discovery, data science and more
A graphics processing unit computer cluster called “Dolly Sods” will enable researchers throughout the state to accelerate computational research in ...
Meet the Martian meteorite hunters
Credit: Natasha Almeida / Natural History Museum A team at the Natural History Museum (NHM), London is paving the way ...
Martian global dust storm ended winter early in the south
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. A dust storm that engulfed Mars in 2018 destroyed a vortex of cold air around the planet's south ...
InSight mission: Mars unveiled
Credit: © IPGP / David Ducros Using information obtained from around a dozen earthquakes detected on Mars by the Very ...
New study reveals previously unseen star formation in milky way
New data shows signs of star birth and death Astronomers using two of the world's most powerful radio telescopes have ...
Spotted: An exoplanet with the potential to form moons
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Benisty et al. Cambridge, MA ¬- Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have helped ...
Unravelling the knotty problem of the Sun’s activity
Credit: MacTaggart et al. A new approach to analysing the development of magnetic tangles on the Sun has led to ...
The weather forecast for Venus
Space-based infrared imaging reveals the nighttime weather on VenusCredit: © 2021 JAXA/Imamura et al. Little is known about the weather ...
A large tidal stream observed in the Sombrero galaxy
Credit: Denis Erkal (University of Surrey, UK), David Martínez-Delgado (IAA-CSIC). According to the latest cosmological models, large spiral galaxies such ...
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Experts optimistic about converting coal plants to production of clean geothermal energy
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U.S. Department of Energy selects Los Alamos National Lab to lead $9.25 million advanced computing partnership
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Reinvigorating ‘lost cause’ exhausted T cells could improve cancer immunotherapy
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Surprise, surprise: Subsurface water on Mars defy expectations
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Study links protecting Indigenous peoples’ lands to greater nonhuman primate biodiversity
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U-M study: Local renewable energy employment can fully replace U.S. coal jobs nationwide